After all, this is someone who, during the 2008 campaign, made this statement: Mandates, I love mandates, mandates work, this is what we need to do, we need to force people to buy insurance.
Alternatively, am I mandated to keep silent regarding anything the patient may have told me because of the confidentiality of the doctor patient relationship?
"I like mandates, the mandates work," Romney said during the 2008 primary.
Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's mandate is, in its most basic form, clear.
Three elements to achieve this should be, I believe: Mandate the UN intervention brigade, which defeated the M23 rebels last October, to flush out the FDLR militia.
The legal questions formed a sort of flow chart: Is the mandate constitutional?
MT: Is the mandate of the AU and French troops sufficiently strong?
Is the mandate to accept uninsured patients responsible for the deficits?
Third, Article I pointedly mandates at least one rule of proceeding, namely, that a majority of senators (and House members, for that matter) will constitute a quorum.
"I was mandated to write to the party leaders and I've asked them how they would do it.
